By consolidating, management might have some dollars available for marketing formats to audiences.

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Savings included consolidating printing activities and simplifying the management structure.

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Although DaimlerChrysler has kept its stake low enough to avoid consolidating Mitsubishi's liabilities, it has now taken over management of the Japanese company, just as Renault did with Nissan, also of Japan, 18 months ago.

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If banks are right about economies of scale, and if management and information systems can keep pace, then why should banks not go on consolidating until only three or four or five of them are left, with three-quarters of the market between them, in a given country, or a given continent, or indeed the world?

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Larger and more permanent gains can come from replacing or consolidating older, less energy efficient equipment with newer models that are ready to participate in advanced power management schemes.

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Indeed, and I do see a lot of savings and efficiency benefits in consolidating services on the Cisco comm servers allowing better subhost store-and-forward switch logic leveraging business process management minimizing installations and connections to myriads of web services and redundancies which often cause inconsistencies and even data integrity issues.

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